Overview
- Bystander video filmed near the security checkpoint shows plainclothes agents lifting and carrying a distraught woman while onlookers watch.
- ICE identified the detainee as Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, 39, a Salvadoran national with a 2020 final removal order issued in absentia after entering the U.S. in 2007.
- The agency first told a reporter it was not involved, then later confirmed the operation and described it as a targeted arrest at the airport on Oct. 29.
- A Salt Lake City police officer observed the encounter as agents showed a badge; SLCPD says it did not assist and does not screen for immigration status in routine policing.
- Mayor Erin Mendenhall and city council leaders criticized the plainclothes tactics and public setting and asked federal officials for details, while the airport noted law enforcement may operate there without prior notice.